Timef 05/31/2025
- Étienne-Émile Baulieu, Father of the Abortion Pill, Is Dead at 98 nytimes.com2025-05-31 21:42:44
He became an advocate of a woman’s right to choose and once said, “It is always tragic when politics takes the most vulnerable hostage — in this case, women.”
- World Scientists Look Elsewhere as U.S. Labs Stagger Under Trump Cuts nytimes.com2025-05-31 12:01:06
With the welcome mat withdrawn for promising researchers from around the world, America is at risk of losing its longstanding pre-eminence in the sciences.
- Trump Administration Ends Program Critical to Search for an H.I.V. Vaccine nytimes.com2025-05-31 09:06:40
The termination is the latest in a series of cuts to H.I.V. research and programs to prevent the disease.
- A Court Debates Whether a Climate Lawsuit Threatens National Security nytimes.com2025-05-31 07:53:21
The judge asked lawyers how a suit by Charleston, S.C., claiming oil companies misled people about climate risks, might be affected by a Trump executive order blasting cases like these.
- George E. Smith Dead: Nobel Prize Winner Was 95 nytimes.com2025-05-31 07:28:53
Together with Willard S. Boyle, he invented an imaging device that is an essential part of nearly every telescope, photocopier and digital camera used today.
- CDC Issues New Advice on Covid Vaccines for Children That Contradicted RFK Jr. nytimes.com2025-05-31 04:33:36
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Tuesday that the vaccine would no longer appear on the childhood immunization schedule. C.D.C.’s update counters his policy.
- Alarmed by Trump Cuts, Scientists Are Talking Science. For 100 Hours. nytimes.com2025-05-31 03:52:14
Meteorologists and climate researchers aim to run a livestream for 100 hours in protest of the Trump administration’s cuts to weather and climate research.
- C.D.C. Contradicts Kennedy and Keeps Advice That Children May Get Covid Shots nytimes.com2025-05-31 02:57:36
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Covid shots were coming off the childhood vaccine schedule. A memo sent by the agency Friday contradicted that.
- Energy Dept. Cuts $3.7 Billion for New Technologies to Lower Emissions nytimes.com2025-05-31 00:10:50
The 24 canceled awards would have gone to a range of companies trying in novel ways to reduce the pollution that is heating the planet.
